Kyriakos Amiridis

Kyriakos Amiridis (30 September 1957-26 December 2016) was the Greek ambassador to Libya from 2012 to 2016 and to Brazil in 2016. Amiridis was murdered in Rio de Janeiro in December 2016.

Biography
Kyriakos Amiridis was born on 30 September 1957 in Veria, Greece, and he began working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985. In 1988, he was sent to work at the Greek embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and he served as Consul General at the Greek consulate in Brazil from 2000 to 2003, marrying a local woman in 2001. From 2012 to 2016, he served as ambassador to Libya, and he returned to Brazil in March 2016 to serve as ambassador. On 26 December 2016, Amiridis was murdered by security police officer Sergio Moreira, who had an affair with Amiridis' wife, at his apartment in Rio de Janeiro; Amiridis' body was found in a burnt-out car under an overpass of a highway near Nova Igacu. The killer confessed to the murder on 30 December, and Moreira and Amiridis' wife were detained.